Craterellus is a genus of generally edible fungi similar to the closely related chanterelles, with some new species recently moved from the latter to the former.

The three most common species, C. cornucopioides, C. lutescens and C. tubaeformis, are gathered commercially and, unlike Cantharellus, can be easily preserved by drying.

Results indicate that the presence of a hollow stipe may be a synapomorphy (a trait corresponding to the evolutionary relationship) which reliably identifies Craterellus species.

[5] Since then some authorities have tried to merge the two genera again,[6] but DNA studies now indicate that (with recent changes) each genus is monophyletic, and so they are likely to remain separate.

[7] In the past Craterellus was distinguished on the basis that[2][6] But phylogenetic DNA work starting with the 2000 paper of Dahlman et al.[2] has shown that some species traditionally placed in Cantharellus (C. tubaeformis, C. ignicolor and C. lutescens) really belong in Craterellus, and this means that the second distinguishing rule is no longer valid.